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Draft Motion for a Resolution prepared for the EU Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, March 2016
Draft Motion prepared by Rapporteurs Pavel Poc (Socialists and Democrats Group), Kateřina Konečná on behalf of the European United Left and Nordic Green Left group, Bas Eickhout of the Greens / European Free Alliance Group, Piernicola Pedicini of the Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy Group, Mark Demesmaeker, Sirpa Pietikäinen and Frédérique Ries. This draft Motion was carried forward for the vote in a Parliamentary Plenary Session in April 2016.
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For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts
When Rolf-Arne Ølberg is hanging out of a helicopter with a gun, he needs to be able to assess from a distance of about 10 metres the sex and approximate weight of the moving animal he is aiming at, as well as how fat or muscular it is and whether it is in any distress. Only then can he dart it with the correct amount of sedative. Luckily, he says, polar bears are “quite good anaesthetic patients”.
Ølberg is a vet working with the Norwegian Polar Institute, the body responsible for the monitoring of polar bears in Svalbard, an archipelago that lies between mainland Norway and the north pole. Every year he and his colleagues track the bears by helicopter, collect blood, fat and hair samples from them and fit electronic tracking collars.
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After last year’s Cop16 biodiversity talks in Cali left key issues unresolved, the extra summit will attempt to seek consensus, especially over funding
Global talks to halt the loss of nature will reopen today in Rome, amid “loss of trust” in the United Nations-led process and concerns that countries will not turn up for the meeting. Delegates are due to meet at Cop16, the UN’s biodiversity conference, to discuss global targets to stop nature loss by 2030.
The additional meeting in Rome was called after talks were suspended in confusion in the Colombian city of Cali in November when they overran and delegates left to catch flights home.
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Protesters who tried to disrupt completion of Mountain Valley pipeline to defend themselves in Virginia court
Climate activists who tried to disrupt the completion of a fossil-fuel pipeline through Appalachian forests will appear in court in Virginia on Tuesday to face serious criminal charges that they vehemently deny.
The Mountain Valley pipeline (MVP) was pushed through by the Biden administration in mid-2023 – overriding court orders, regulatory blocks and widespread opposition to the 300-mile (480km) fossil fuel project. Biden’s decision triggered a wave of non-violent protests and civil disobedience against the pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia as work crews rushed to finish construction of the pipeline through sensitive waterways and protected forests.
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Environment secretary will hope move can reset relations with farmers after inheritance tax row
The environment secretary, Steve Reed, is to announce a five-year extension of the seasonal farm worker scheme in an attempt to reset relations with farmers after fury over inheritance tax.
Making his pitch to farmers at the National Farmers’ Union conference in central London on Tuesday, Reed will also announce the opening of a new national biosecurity centre to tackle diseases including foot-and-mouth and bluetongue.
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Dog walker’s close encounter prompts debate over whether the animals, once native to UK, should remain
Sightings of wild boar on Dartmoor have raised suspicions a guerrilla rewilder has been releasing them – and prompted a debate over whether they should be allowed to remain.
Videos of a group of boar on the moors in Devon were posted online earlier this month, and a dog walker has recently complained of a close encounter with one of them, which frightened his pet.
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Study shows funding bias towards animals like rhino while other endangered species including amphibians and algae disregarded
Most global conservation funds go to larger, charismatic animals, leaving critically important but less fashionable species deprived, a 25-year study has revealed.
Scientists have found that of the $1.963bn allocated to projects worldwide, 82.9% was assigned to vertebrates. Plants and invertebrates each accounted for 6.6% of the funding, while fungi and algae were barely represented at less than 0.2%.
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As well as intense human suffering, three years of war have had a catastrophic environmental effect, killing wildlife, felling trees and increasing emissions
Since 2022, the Guardian photographer Alessio Mamo has been tracking the impact of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin’s full-scale invasion, which began three years ago on Monday, caused millions of Ukrainians to flee. Cities have been flattened, villages occupied and lives destroyed. At least 46,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and many more injured in Europe’s biggest conflict since the second world war.
Aerial view of craters caused by rocket fire in a field in the liberated area between Kharkiv and Donetsk regions. Ammunition and missile residues in these craters may become a source of chemical pollution that could reach the groundwater
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The January blazes wiped out a thriving communal food pathway unique to the Altadena neighborhood, but farmers are starting to plan for its renewal
In Choi Chatterjee and Omer Sayeed’s Altadena backyard, beehives produced pounds of honey, copious amounts of fruit and vegetables were harvested, and hens laid plenty of fresh eggs. A couple of pygmy goats and a pair of 100-pound tortoises, Layla and Manju, roamed the urban farm, keeping the weeds trimmed, the compost turned and the soil alive with microbes, much to the delight of the hundreds of visitors who have enjoyed free tours and home-cooked meals since the couple began offering them in 2020.
Passersby were often drawn to the Chatterjee-Sayeed residence since the lush butterfly-filled parkway next to their home has served as a free communal garden for more than a decade. Neighbors were welcome to stop by for persimmons, guavas, nopal pads, herbs and varieties of citrus. “We’d get 100 to 200 pomegranates and just hand them out to whoever was walking by,” said Chatterjee, who is co-director of the Urban Ecology Center at Cal State LA. “It was just bustling with life.”
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The rare sighting of two common short-beaked dolphins hints at an environmental success story
When New Yorkers were graced by the presence of two dolphins in the city’s East River earlier this month, marine experts said such a sighting was rare – but also a sign that this spring and summer season could be a good one for spotting more marine mammals, both great and small.
On the morning of 14 February, a pair of common short-beaked dolphins was spotted alongside Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Experts tracking them observed that they lingered until 17 February, swimming up and down the fast-flowing channel that divides Manhattan from the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn and is lined with skyscrapers.
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Rio de Janeiro reached 44C, its highest temperature for more than a decade, last Monday
While North America grappled with widespread cold and wintry conditions last week, South America – now in its final month of summer – faced the opposite extreme, with record high temperatures recorded across the continent. In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s second largest city, temperatures at its Guaratiba weather station soared to 44C last Monday, 14C above the February norm and the highest temperature recorded in the city for more than a decade. In addition to the high temperatures, Rio has also experienced what is expected to be one of its driest Februarys on record, with little rain so far this month and minimal precipitation expected in the next week. Authorities activated a level 4 heat protocol early last week as a result of the extreme heat, prompting the setup of hydration stations at outdoor events and public spaces, as well as the designation of air-conditioned buildings as “cooling points”.
Although temperatures in Brazil have since returned closer to average, the focus of the heat has shifted southwards. North-western Argentina is set for highs in the upper 30s to low 40s Celsius in the coming days, 10 to 15C above the seasonal average. However, unlike in Rio, these high temperatures are likely to set off thunderstorms, some of which may lead to some high rainfall totals in places.
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Rak gušterače ostaje jedna od najsmrtonosnijih malignih bolesti, sa stopom petogodišnjeg preživljavanja od samo 5%. Nova studija otkriva da veća ekspresija GATA6 korelira s boljom diferencijacijom tumora i poboljšanim ishodima za pacijente, dok su niske razine GATA6 povezane s agresivnim bazalnim duktalnim adenokarcinomom gušterače, podtipom otpornim na kemoterapiju.
Vježbanje može produljiti životni vijek osoba koje su preživjele rak debelog crijeva, pokazuje nova studija. Naime, pacijenti s rakom koji su puno vježbali imali su prosječne stope trogodišnjeg preživljavanja 3% više od opće populacije. Osobe koje su malo vježbale imale su stope preživljavanja niže od prosječnih ljudi.
Novo istraživanje sugerira da ekstrakt crvenog ginsenga u prahu poboljšava kontrolu glikemije i osjetljivost na inzulin kod odraslih u predijabetesu, nudeći prirodnu alternativu za kontrolu razine šećera u krvi.
Dodavanje personaliziranog mRNA cjepiva standardnom liječenju moglo bi ponuditi novu nadu za pacijente s rakom gušterače, ukazuju rezultati nove studije. Uz operaciju i kemoterapiju, pacijenti su primili prilagođeno mRNA cjepivo, dizajnirano korištenjem vlastitih tumora. Za razliku od cjepiva kojima je prvenstveno cilj spriječiti bolest, ovo cjepivo ima za cilj pomoći imunološkom sustavu pacijenta u borbi protiv raka.
Kombinacija mRNA i nove lipidne nanočestice mogla bi pomoći u zacjeljivanju oštećenih pluća, ukazuje nova studija. Virusi, fizičke traume ili drugi problemi mogu imati ozbiljne posljedice na pluća, a kada je oštećenje u nižim regijama, tradicionalni tretmani, poput inhalacijskih lijekova, možda neće djelovati.
Nedavno objavljena studija otkrila je da lijek sotagliflozin koji se već koristi za liječenje ljudi koji imaju dijabetes tipa 2 i kroničnu bubrežnu bolest s dodatnim rizicima od srčanih bolesti, također pomaže u smanjenju rizika od srčanog udara (infarkta miokarda) i moždanog udara.
Pacijenti s moždanim udarom napuštaju bolnicu s boljim izgledima ako su prisiljeni više se truditi tijekom oporavka, pokazuje nova studija. Naime, integracijom 30 minuta dnevno progresivnog hodanja u standardnu rehabilitaciju nakon moždanog udara (30 do 60 minuta fizikalne terapije pet dana u tjednu) pacijenti s moždanim udarom imali su mjerljivo poboljšanu kvalitetu života i pokretljivost pri otpustu iz bolnice u usporedbi s kontrolnom skupinom.
Rezultati nove studije pokazali su da dnevna konzumacija avokada tijekom 26 tjedana nije značajno poboljšala ukupni rezultat kardiovaskularnog zdravlja LE8 kod odraslih osoba s abdominalnom pretilošću. Međutim, primijećena su značajna poboljšanja u određenim zdravstvenim domenama, uključujući kvalitetu prehrane, zdravlje sna i lipide u krvi.
Poznato je da kronični stres povisuje krvni tlak. No, nova studija otkriva da tjelovježba sprječava hipertenziju (visoki krvni tlak) obnavljanjem razine STAT3 u amigdali. Koristeći model štakora, studija je otkrila da je stres smanjio ekspresiju Stat3, što je dovelo do povišenog krvnog tlaka, dok je tjelovježba poništila ovaj učinak.
Pušenje, osobito intenzivno pušenje, povezano je s nekim neobjašnjivim moždanim udarima kod mlađih odraslih osoba, uglavnom kod muških pojedinaca i kod ljudi u dobi od 45 do 49 godina, ukazuje nova studija.
